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Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued by the Archdiocese of Newark’s Institute of Social Relations on February 6, 1974. In the release, the Institute of Social Relations demanded Mayor Ken Gibson take action to prevent the shutdown of Stella Wright Homes. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

A 1975 groundbreaking ceremony of the New Community Corporation (NCC), an economic and housing development corporation founded in 1968 by Rev. William Linder. (L-R) George Wheeler (representative of Mayor Ken Gibson), Rev. Linder, Willie Wright (President of NCC), and William Blakely (Engelhard Industries). — Credit: D.J. Zehnder/John T. Cunningham

Booklet published by the National Urban Coalition, covering the Stella Wright Rent Strike and the roles played by the Greater Newark Urban Coalition in negotiating the strike’s settlement. In April 1970, tenants in the high-rise building began a rent strike to force building repairs that lasted four years. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Pamphlet distributed by the Committee For Unified Newark (CFUN) in 1972, outlining the major programs, projects, teachings, and ideologies of the organization. CFUN was a cultural nationalist organization established in 1968 by Amiri Baraka aimed at achieving Black political power in Newark. — Credit: The Black Power Movement, Pt. 1 (microfilm)

Volume 8, Number 1-2 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist League (formerly the Congress of Afrikan People), published in February 1979. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Volume 8, Number 4-9 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist League (formerly the Congress of Afrikan People), published in September 1979. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Volume 3, Number 10 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), published in October 1974. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Volume 3, Number 5 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), published in May 1974. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Volume 3, Number 13 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), published in December 1974. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Volume 3, Number 1 of Black NewArk, the local newspaper of the Committee For Unified Newark (CFUN), published in January-February 1974. Black NewArk was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. This was the final edition of Black NewArk before the newspaper changed to the national paper, Unity and Struggle. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library